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base ; scutellum clothed with appressed hairs ; elytra very closely 

 punctulate, not costulate, sinuate laterally and distinctly attenuate 

 towards the apex, the basal part is pubescent, and the scales forming 

 the two bands and the median transverse patch are round and very 

 closely set ; pygidial part and abdomen clothed with thick lanuginose 

 yellow hairs ; legs and pectus densely villose ; claw of intermediate 

 legs without a tooth underneath. 



Female : Like the male, the prothorax is less densely villose, and 

 less squamose along the base, but the vestiture of the elytra and 

 underneath is similar to that of the male. 



Length 4f-6i- mm. ; width 2i— 4^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Malmesbury. 

 "Worcester, Ceres, Tulbagh). 



DiCKANOCXEMUS PULCHER, n. SpeC. 



Male : Shape and vestiture of D. sulcicoUis, of which it is a very 

 close ally, but the shape of the clypeus is different owing to the 

 lateral tooth and the angles of the apical part not being reflexed and 

 hardly prominent ; the median groove of the prothorax is not so 

 deep, and the pubescence is shorter ; the scales are not so golden 

 yellow, and those on the scutellum and the median part of the 

 discoidal band, and also on the post-scutellary patch, are slightly 

 whitish. 



Female : Shaped like the male, but the prothorax is covered with 

 a densely dark pubescence turning to bright fulvous on the sides, and 

 the furrow is filled wdth a narrow, similar band ; the elytra are 

 covered with a chocolate tomentum, and the bands of scales and 

 also the post-scutellary patch are very slender. I am not quite sure, 

 however, that the insect thus described is the female of D. pnlchcr. 

 The clypeus is hardly angular at the tip. 



Length 5-5^ mm. ; width 2f mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Worcester, Caledon, Knysna). 



DiCEANOCNEMUS HYPOCRITA, n. speC. 



Male : Almost similar to D. pulchcr, but a little shorter ; the apical 

 angles of the clypeus are distincth^ rounded, and there is no lateral 

 prominence at the base ; the prothorax is briefly villose, and has 

 a similar basal lateral patch of squamose flavescent hairs and a fine 

 line of yellow scales filling also part of the median groove ; the elytra 

 have only two bands of bright yellow scales uniting in the median 

 part and the sutural patch, the scales of which are whitish, is connected 

 with the scaly apical part by a narrow line of scales, these scales leave 



